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Author : Ward Merner McAfee
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Total Pages : 442 pages
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Download or read book Local Interests and Railroad Regulation in Nineteeth Century California written by Ward Merner McAfee and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393082601
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
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Total Pages : 264 pages
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Author : Spencer C. Olin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520333012
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Author : Ronald H. Limbaugh
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 087417578X
Total Pages : 429 pages
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Total Pages : 392 pages
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Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478639911
Total Pages : 555 pages
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Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532633
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Author : Claudia Goldin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226301346
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book The Regulated Economy written by Claudia Goldin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the United States economy, focusing on the political influence of special interest groups in the development of economic regulation. The Regulated Economy examines how constituent groups emerged and demanded government action to solve perceived economic problems, such as exorbitant railroad and utility rates, bank failure, falling agricultural prices, the immigration of low-skilled workers, workplace injury, and the financing of government. The contributors look at how preexisting policies, institutions, and market structures shaped regulatory activity; the origins of regulatory movements at the state and local levels; the effects of consensus-building on the timing and content of legislation; and how well government policies reflect constituency interests. A wide-ranging historical view of the way interest group demands and political bargaining have influenced the growth of economic regulation in the United States, this book is important reading for economists, political scientists, and public policy experts.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Total Pages : 270 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 158 pages
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Author : Martin Shefter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821223
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Author : Zachary Callen
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700623000
Total Pages : 270 pages
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Download or read book Railroads and American Political Development written by Zachary Callen and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's founders envisioned a federal government of limited and enumerated powers. What they could not envision, of course, was the vast and complex infrastructure that the growing nation would demand—a demand that became ever clearer as the power and importance of railroads emerged. The requirements of a nationwide rail network, it also became clear, far exceeded the resources of state and local government and private industry. The consequences, as seen in this book, amounted to state building from the ground up. In Railroads and American Political Development Zachary Callen tells the story of the federal government's role in developing a national rail system—and the rail system's role in expanding the power of the federal government. The book reveals how state building, so often attributed to an aggressive national government, can also result from local governments making demands on the national state—a dynamic that can still be seen at work every time the US Congress takes up a transportation bill. Though many states invested in their local railroads, and many quite successfully, others were less willing or less capable—so rail development necessarily became a federal concern. Railroads and American Political Development shows how this led to the Land Grant Act of 1850, a crucial piece of legislation in the building of both the nation's infrastructure and the American state. Chronicling how this previously local issue migrated to the federal state, and how federal action then altered American rail planning, the book offers a new perspective on the exact nature of federalism. In the case of rail development, we see how state governments factor into the American state building process, and how, in turn, the separation of powers at the federal level shaped that process. The result is a fresh view of the development of the American rail system, as well as a clearer picture of the pressures and political logic that have altered and expanded the reach of American federalism.
Author : Ward McAfee
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Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book California's Railroad Era, 1850-1911 written by Ward McAfee and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
